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The best statistics show us that the gay population of the United
States is roughly 2.5 percent at the least and maybe 10 percent at the most, but is located
somewhere within those figures.

Now about 3 percent of that 10 percent, if you cite the highest number, is interested in getting
married. I would conclude that it’s not a “great number” of people.

Consider that we, the majority of Americans, are being asked to forget the definition of
marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

We’re asked to forget the overwhelming approval by voters of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act,
that was passed a few years ago.

We are to reconsider the basis of our societal recognition of this legal relationship,
sanctioned by our communities.

We are to turn over the foundation of the family — “father, mother, offspring” or husband and
wife before witnesses — to a small group of people who are products of that traditional union, so
that it’s fair. To whom is it fair? It’s not fair to me. It’s not fair to most people.

And why then would it be fair? It is not a marriage. It is a relationship of personal choosing
and that’s just fine by me.

I don’t care what the gay population does, how they do it or when or with whom they do it, for
that matter. But to infringe upon traditional marriage is unthinkable.

That I care about.

Marriage is a singular entity.

It’s the law, it’s popular, it makes the most sense for procreation, it’s accepted as the norm
and, most of all, it’s what the majority of people desire.

The fact that younger people have been handed this pathetic, implausible understanding that they
are being homophobic, unkind, bigoted or the like if they don’t give in to changing traditional
marriage infuriates me.

Television makes it seem like there are gazillions of gay men and women just clamoring to be
married, and it’s just not true.

And playing on the sympathies of people by telling them about some monogamous gay unions of
couples who have been together for years is just that.

If this is the lifestyle of choice, then that’s just what it is. What it is not, is a
marriage.